There is a L.A. County Fair commercial where a mother and her daughters are shopping in a boutique and discussing whether wool comes from a boy cow or a girl cow (see it here.) Ridiculous, isn't it?
But then I heard about the following conversation between a friend's co-workers:
Girl 1: Veal is a bird right?
Girl 2: Veal isn't a bird, it's a type of fish.
And then I had the following conversation at the farmers market last weekend:
Husband: Look at that rhubarb
Wife: Wow is that a vegetable?
Me to couple: This is swiss chard
Husband: Yup it's rhubarb (pointing to the yellow swiss chard next to the red swiss chard).
Granted, mistaking swiss chard for rhubarb is less of a misnomer than believing wool comes from a cow. But the L.A. County Fair tagline is so true. If there was ever a place that needed a county fair, it's L.A.
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I'm laughing about the veal. That's about as bad as Jessica Simpson's Chicken of the Sea incident. :-/
What makes it even sadder is that my friend works for an accounting firm for fairly wealthy clients. Her co-workers are supposedly educated professional women. Sad huh?
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